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New Testament Semiotics
Linguistic Signs, the Process of Signification, and the Hermeneutics of Discursive Resistance
Series: - Biblical Interpretation Series, Volume: 193
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Focusing on linguistic signs, New Testament Semiotics navigates through different realist and nominalist traditions. From this perspective, Saussures and Peirces traditions exhibit similarities. Questioning Derridas and Ecos semiotics based on their misuse of Peirces innovations, Dr. Privatdozent Timo Eskola rehabilitates Benveniste and Ricoeur. A sign is about conditions and functions. Sign as a role is a manifestation of participation. Serving as a sign entails participation in a web of relations, participation in a network of meanings, and adoption of a set of rules. We should focus on sentences and networks, not primitive reference or binary oppositions. Enunciations are postulations producing evanescent meanings. Finally, the study suggests a linguistic approach to metatheology that is based on hermeneutics of discursive resistance.
Timo Eskola, Dr.theol. (1992), Dr.phil. (2011), Privatdozent (University of Helsinki). He is the author of Beyond Biblical Theology: Sacralized Culturalism in Heikki Räisänens Hermeneutics (Brill, 2013), and A Narrative Theology of the New Testament (WUNT, 2015), among other works.
Preface
Introduction
1 A Short History of the Semantic Triad: On Nomination and Signification
â1.1 From Aristotle to Augustine
â1.2 The Rise of Nominalism: Abelard
â1.3 Moderate Realism: Aquinas and Scotus
â1.4 Ockhams Razor: The Decline of Metaphysics
â1.5 Semiotic Approaches: Poinsot, Arnauld, and Locke
â1.6 Realism, Nominalism and the Epistemological Triad
â1.7 Considering the Semiotic Triad: Some Conclusions
2 Toward a Linguistic Solution: Saussures Signifiant and Signifi
â2.1 A Distinction between Langue and Parole
â2.2 The Aspects of Synchrony and Diachrony
â2.3 New Definition of the Linguistic Sign: The Signifier and the Signified
â2.4 The System of Signs: Values and Differences
â2.5 Sentences: Syntagmatic and Associative Relations
â2.6 Sign and System: Is There a Saussurean Triad?
â2.7 Against Nominalism: Some Conclusions
3 Understanding Semiosis: The Peircean View
â3.1 Whatever is Is Representation
â3.2 Peirces Pure Categories
â3.3 Semiosis Reflecting the Semiotic Transformation
â3.4 A Classification of Representations: A Basis for the Theory of Signs
â3.5 Using Signs: Semiosis, Sign, and Signification
â3.6 What Is a Sign: Some Conclusions
4 Peirce and Saussure: Two Ways or a Common Path?
â4.1 Symbols (Words) and Peirces Modal Categories
â4.2 The Linguistic Sign
â4.3 Peirces Equivalents for signifiant and signifi
â4.4 The Process of Semiosis as Sign Translation
â4.5 Why Do Symbols Grow?
â4.6 Meaning and the Production of Interpretants: Some Conclusions
5 Reading Peirce in Paris: Derridas Poststructuralist Semiotics
â5.1 The Critique against Logocentricism
â5.2 Derridas Husserlian Phenomenology
â5.3 The Structure of Signification (noema)
â5.4 Diffrance as the Ontological Difference
â5.5 Deconstruction as a Means for Dismantling Diffrance: Some Conclusions
6 Confusing the Triads: Derrida and Eco
â6.1 On the Elements of Semiosis
â6.2 Noema as Interpretant
â6.3 The Problem of Arbitrariness
â6.4 Sinsigns without Legisigns
â6.5 Differnce as Semiosis
â6.6 Appropriation and Inversion: Some Conclusions
7 Linguistic Turns and the Rebirth of Semantics: On Parole/Discourse
â7.1 From Langue to Parole: Benveniste on Enunciation
â7.2 Jakobsons Communication Theory: Encoding and Decoding
â7.3 The Construction of Meaning in Sentences: Ricoeur
â7.4 New Semantics: The Legacy of Nida and Louw
â7.5 Discourse and Meaning: Some Conclusions
8 Sign and Semiosis in the New Testament: Metanarratives and Metaphors
â8.1 Beyond Sentence: Narrative and Metanarrative
â8.2 Narrative in Action: Jubilee and Liberation from Egyptian Slavery in Theological Semiosis
â8.3 The Peircean Triad and the Principles of Metaphor
â8.4 Royal and Cultic Metaphors in Biblical Texts
â8.5 Semiosis, Metanarratives and Interpretants: Some Conclusions
9 A Test Case: How to Interpret Atonement
â9.1 Setting the Problem
â9.2 The Birth of Christus Victor Theory
â9.3 The Change of Narrative: Ritschl and Kantian Epistemology
â9.4 A New Paradigm: Auln on Christus Victor
â9.5 Words of Caution: Aulns Second Phase
â9.6 Christus Victor and Attempts to Solve Problems of Reformed Soteriology
â9.7 Covenantal Nomism, Justification Theory and Campbells Christus Victor
â9.8 Signification Processes behind Atonement Theology: Some Conclusions
10 Metatheology and the Hermeneutics of Discursive Resistance
â10.1 On the Decline of Meaning
â10.2 Non-Realist Traditions, Deconstruction, and Religious Language
â10.3 The Semiosis of Religious Ideas
â10.4 Metatheology: On the Inventive Moment
â10.5 Metanarratives and Hermeneutics of Utterance
Afterword: New Testament semiotics and the return of meaning
Bibliography
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects
Introduction
1 A Short History of the Semantic Triad: On Nomination and Signification
â1.1 From Aristotle to Augustine
â1.2 The Rise of Nominalism: Abelard
â1.3 Moderate Realism: Aquinas and Scotus
â1.4 Ockhams Razor: The Decline of Metaphysics
â1.5 Semiotic Approaches: Poinsot, Arnauld, and Locke
â1.6 Realism, Nominalism and the Epistemological Triad
â1.7 Considering the Semiotic Triad: Some Conclusions
2 Toward a Linguistic Solution: Saussures Signifiant and Signifi
â2.1 A Distinction between Langue and Parole
â2.2 The Aspects of Synchrony and Diachrony
â2.3 New Definition of the Linguistic Sign: The Signifier and the Signified
â2.4 The System of Signs: Values and Differences
â2.5 Sentences: Syntagmatic and Associative Relations
â2.6 Sign and System: Is There a Saussurean Triad?
â2.7 Against Nominalism: Some Conclusions
3 Understanding Semiosis: The Peircean View
â3.1 Whatever is Is Representation
â3.2 Peirces Pure Categories
â3.3 Semiosis Reflecting the Semiotic Transformation
â3.4 A Classification of Representations: A Basis for the Theory of Signs
â3.5 Using Signs: Semiosis, Sign, and Signification
â3.6 What Is a Sign: Some Conclusions
4 Peirce and Saussure: Two Ways or a Common Path?
â4.1 Symbols (Words) and Peirces Modal Categories
â4.2 The Linguistic Sign
â4.3 Peirces Equivalents for signifiant and signifi
â4.4 The Process of Semiosis as Sign Translation
â4.5 Why Do Symbols Grow?
â4.6 Meaning and the Production of Interpretants: Some Conclusions
5 Reading Peirce in Paris: Derridas Poststructuralist Semiotics
â5.1 The Critique against Logocentricism
â5.2 Derridas Husserlian Phenomenology
â5.3 The Structure of Signification (noema)
â5.4 Diffrance as the Ontological Difference
â5.5 Deconstruction as a Means for Dismantling Diffrance: Some Conclusions
6 Confusing the Triads: Derrida and Eco
â6.1 On the Elements of Semiosis
â6.2 Noema as Interpretant
â6.3 The Problem of Arbitrariness
â6.4 Sinsigns without Legisigns
â6.5 Differnce as Semiosis
â6.6 Appropriation and Inversion: Some Conclusions
7 Linguistic Turns and the Rebirth of Semantics: On Parole/Discourse
â7.1 From Langue to Parole: Benveniste on Enunciation
â7.2 Jakobsons Communication Theory: Encoding and Decoding
â7.3 The Construction of Meaning in Sentences: Ricoeur
â7.4 New Semantics: The Legacy of Nida and Louw
â7.5 Discourse and Meaning: Some Conclusions
8 Sign and Semiosis in the New Testament: Metanarratives and Metaphors
â8.1 Beyond Sentence: Narrative and Metanarrative
â8.2 Narrative in Action: Jubilee and Liberation from Egyptian Slavery in Theological Semiosis
â8.3 The Peircean Triad and the Principles of Metaphor
â8.4 Royal and Cultic Metaphors in Biblical Texts
â8.5 Semiosis, Metanarratives and Interpretants: Some Conclusions
9 A Test Case: How to Interpret Atonement
â9.1 Setting the Problem
â9.2 The Birth of Christus Victor Theory
â9.3 The Change of Narrative: Ritschl and Kantian Epistemology
â9.4 A New Paradigm: Auln on Christus Victor
â9.5 Words of Caution: Aulns Second Phase
â9.6 Christus Victor and Attempts to Solve Problems of Reformed Soteriology
â9.7 Covenantal Nomism, Justification Theory and Campbells Christus Victor
â9.8 Signification Processes behind Atonement Theology: Some Conclusions
10 Metatheology and the Hermeneutics of Discursive Resistance
â10.1 On the Decline of Meaning
â10.2 Non-Realist Traditions, Deconstruction, and Religious Language
â10.3 The Semiosis of Religious Ideas
â10.4 Metatheology: On the Inventive Moment
â10.5 Metanarratives and Hermeneutics of Utterance
Afterword: New Testament semiotics and the return of meaning
Bibliography
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Subjects
Any student of theology or professional theologian, and anyone interested in the meaning of words, expressions, and communication. Highly specialized scholars working on signification. Those interested in New Testament theology.